<p>Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by the past. We take you to the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all over the world, to examine wars, coups, scientific discoveries, cultural moments and much more. Recent episodes explore everything from the death of Adolf Hitler, the first spacewalk and the making of the movie Jaws, to celebrity tortoise Lonesome George, the Kobe earthquake and the invention of superglue. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: Eva Peron – Argentina’s Evita; President Ronald Reagan and his famous ‘tear down this wall’ speech; Thomas Keneally on why he wrote Schindler’s List; and Jacques Derrida, France’s ‘rock star’ philosopher. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the civil rights swimming protest; the disastrous D-Day rehearsal ; and the death of one of the world’s oldest languages.</p>
| Title | Date published | ||
| Kuwaiti oil fires of 1991 | 2021-11-15 | ||
| Shoot: A milestone in performance art | 2021-11-15 | ||
| The South African football star murdered for being a lesbian | 2021-11-11 | ||
| Spying in Berlin | 2021-11-10 | ||
| Chanel No. 5 | 2021-11-09 | ||
| Britain's Black Schools | 2021-11-08 | ||
| When Eritrea silenced its critics | 2021-11-05 | ||
| The end of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising | 2021-11-04 | ||
| The enduring legend of Fu Manchu | 2021-11-03 | ||
| Judgement at Nuremberg | 2021-11-02 | ||
| The miracle of walking | 2021-11-01 | ||
| Kilimanjaro: Africa’s disappearing glaciers | 2021-10-29 | ||
| The child climate activist of the 1990s | 2021-10-28 | ||
| How the world woke up to climate change | 2021-10-27 | ||
| The world's first environment conference | 2021-10-26 | ||
| Proving climate change: the 'Keeling Curve' | 2021-10-25 | ||
| Britain’s lesbian families ‘scandal’ | 2021-10-22 | ||
| The Greenham Common women's peace camp | 2021-10-21 | ||
| Polish refugees in Africa | 2021-10-20 | ||
| The mysterious death of Samora Machel | 2021-10-19 |